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Lancs: Matt
Glasgow:
Apologies:
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The point of my ranting is it seems half our problems could be solved if we could get xrootd to rate/connection limit so things didn’t get in so bad a state that we required to reboot things. We don’t think xroot has this functionality in itself (James reminded me of the throttle plugin but we don’t know if this works with http). The preliminary thought would be something on the redirector that, if detecting problems or high load, rather then redirect to the least-worst-off xroot server just returned a polite “try again later” (503 ?).
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